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Born in Madrid, Spain 1980, Blanca Regina is an artist, curator and tutor based in London.
Initially lecturer at University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, later research fellow at University of the Arts London (2011-2014). At the moment she is also teaching at the University of Kent, Events and Experience Design.
Her practice encompass expanded cinema, free improvisation, moving image, photography and audiovisual performance.

Her research is focused on the study of sound and image processes, multimedia language aesthetics and content. In 2010, she was awarded with a doctorship in Humanities in the University Rey Juan Carlos with the thesis·” El VJ y la creación audiovisual performativa: una estética radical de la performatividad.” Download

Her practice spans multiple media. She creates with live video, sound, text and graphics. Digital or physical designs.

Her curatorial work evolved from beginnings in the audiovisual festival network, co-curating content for Festivals such as RECMadrid, to founding LaptopsRus, a women VJ network, and the artist association Mademotion in Madrid. She was for 3 years curator at the London-based Music Hackspace, later trustee at London Hackspace in 2017. As curator she participates in multiple events and exhibitions. She created in 2011 along Steve Beresford and Jack Goldstein Strange Umbrellas a platform for film, performance, art and music. In 2013 along Steve Beresford and Pierre Bouvier Patron she created Unpredictable Series. Since 2011, Regina and Beresford presented via Unpredictable Series, a series of exhibitions looking at free improvisation and the art of improvisers in London engaging audiences with the story of free improvisation in UK and its connections to other art practices.

Last works also include Unpredictable, a film about musician and artist Terry Day. In 2015 she presented a mayor exhibition in Oaxaca, Mexico called ‘ Ephimera and Expanded Audiovisuals.’ In 2016 she curated LED in Oaxaca, Mexico a festival that brings together tradition and innovation and focuses in free improvisation, audiovisual art and multimedia performances.